"I love a wide variety of audiobooks, but my favorite genre to listen to is memoir. Hearing, rather than reading, a personal narrative feels intimate and real, and that sense is amplified when the narrator is also the author of the book. Here are five wonderful author-narrated memoirs that I’ve listened to recently and loved." —Cheryl Strayed, author of Two Women Walk into a Bar
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A perceptive, contemplative book about youth and friendship, loss and growing up. Hsu’s vivid—and ultimately heartbreaking—portrait of his late friend, Ken, is one that will stay with me for a long time.
Wise, witty, and full of grace, this memoir about the sudden end of Crane’s once-happy marriage is a moving story about the messy complexities of love and winning testament to our ability to move on.
I’ve long believed the best thing we can do is make something beautiful of the ugliest things that happen to us, and Delaney has done exactly that in this exquisitely honest and powerful book about the life and death of his beautiful son, Henry.
Vargas takes readers around the world and deep into her heart in this wonderful book as she pursues her career as a travel writer, while also attempting to answer big questions about love, work, and learning how to trust the truth of your own wild heart.
In this moving memoir, Jenkins sets out on a road trip with his mother, retracing the route of a journey she’d taken with his father years before he was born. It’s a riveting story about parent-child bonds and the connections that remain despite profound differences.
About Cheryl
Cheryl Strayed is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which was made into an Oscar-nominated film; Tiny Beautiful Things, which was adapted into a Hulu television series and as a play; Brave Enough; and the novel Torch. Her books have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than 40 languages. Her award-winning essays and short stories have been published in The Best American Essays, the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, and elsewhere. Strayed writes the popular Substack newsletter “Dear Sugar” and has hosted two hit podcasts, Dear Sugars and Sugar Calling. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
